Good morning!
(This is my first posting...)
Looking for baptismal record of Samuel Meade (sometimes Mead in documents) from England!
The 1901 Canada census for Brockville, Ontario, has the following information about him:
birth date: 5 march 1853
birth place: England
date of immigration to Canada: 1870
racial origin: English
religion: Brethren
occupation: carter
Birth date is the same on his death notice.
Birth place is the same in all other documents I have seen, without ever a locality name, except on the
death record of one of his sons where he is said from "Devin England".
Except in that 1901 census, his religion is Baptist (all of his 5 sons were Baptist ministers at one time
or another).
His wife and children were all born in Canada but I have found no record of his marriage thus far; so I
don't know his parents' names.
Family Search mentions only two Samuel Meade born in or around 1853: one that still lives in England after
1870; and one from Tilshead, Wiltshire, mentioned in the census of 1861, but not in 1871. His siblings
appear in the Tilshead or West Lavington registers but not him!
My hypothesis is that "Devin" is an erroneous reading for Devizes, where his parents could have been
married, and that he could have been baptised there... or at Amesbury?
Thank you for your patience at reading me: I wanted you to know exactly what I know and not.
